More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...
The remains of at least 16 individuals, including children, have been discovered in a cave in eastern China, and are believed ...
Scientists previously knew from fossil remains that these two extinct branches of the human evolutionary tree – called Homo ...
Ancient footprints discovered in Kenya belong to two different species of human relatives who walked on the same ground at ...
Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the ...
About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy ...
The footprints are the first clear evidence that the two hominin species shared a habitat, raising questions about whether ...
All good things must come to an end. Sadly, Homo sapiens’ time on Earth is no exception. And someone would surely take our ...
Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...
In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...
Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.